Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci leaves for his first voyage to the New World (disputed)
Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci leaves for his first voyage to the New World (disputed)
Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci leaves for his first voyage to the New World (disputed)
Key People
Events Before
Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine
Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine
Joanna of Aragon marries Philip of Flanders, future King Philip I of Castile
Joanna of Aragon marries Philip of Flanders, future King Philip I of Castile
English King Henry VII grants John Cabot (Giovanni Caboto) a commission to explore for new lands
John Cabot was an Italian navigator and explorer. His 1497 voyage to the coast of North America under the commission of Henry VII, King of England is the earliest known European exploration of...
Jews are expelled from Carintha, Austria
Jews are expelled from Carintha, Austria
Jews are expelled from Syria
Sephardic Jews, also known as Sephardi Jews or Sephardim, and rarely as Iberian Peninsular Jews, are a Jewish diaspora population associated with the historic Jewish communities of the Iberian...
Events After
Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama arrives in Calicut, India, becoming the first European to reach India by sea
Vasco da Gama ( VAS-koo də GA (H)M-ə, European Portuguese: [ˈvaʃku ðɐ ˈɣɐmɐ]; c. 1460s – 24 December 1524) was a Portuguese mariner, explorer and nobleman.
Cesare Borgia, son of Pope Alexander IV, 1st man to resign the cardinalate marries Charlotte d'Albret of Navarre
Cesare Borgia, son of Pope Alexander IV, 1st man to resign the cardinalate marries Charlotte d'Albret of Navarre
Crowd storms Savonarola's convent San Marco Florence, Italy
Crowd storms Savonarola's convent San Marco Florence, Italy
Jews are expelled from Nuremberg, Bavaria, by Emperor Maximillian
Jews are expelled from Nuremberg, Bavaria, by Emperor Maximillian
Charles VIII dies
Charles VIII dies
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